When our puppies are five weeks old, we start socializing them during the day with playtimes in our Puppy Pavillion. Our puppy area has a mat that may be bleached regularly for sanitation and that is also soft and cushy on puppies' paws. Our playhouse is heated and cooled when needed and also has numerous chewtoys and play toys for socialization. The puppies get so excited to play in the play yard and will follow single file out to play when we let them out of their whelping pen in the morning. It is a sight to see! Our play yard also has the benefit of socializing our dogs to horses as Grady and Sassy graze near the pen. We laugh at the puppies watching the horses and the horses watching the puppies!